Receivers (1,11) for receiving radio frequency signals are provided with
modulating stages (4,14) between mixing stages (3,13) and filtering
stages (5,15) for deltasigma modulating intermediate frequency signals,
to shape the quantisation noise out of the frequency band in which the
wanted channel is located. Modulating stages (4,14) comprise delta-sigma
modulators (41,42,43,90) with low-pass filters (91), quantisers (92) and
digitalto-analog converters (93) having a low resolution and therefore a
low power consumption. Due to delta-sigma modulating being done through a
feedback loop, the receivers (1,11) have become less critical. The
low-pass filters (91) comprise time-continuous filters, to avoid
antialiasing filtering. The receivers further comprise digital further
mixing stages (6, 16) coupled to the filtering stages (5, 15) for
generating baseband signals and digital further filtering stages (7, 17)
coupled to the further mixing stages (6, 16) for channel selective
filtering the baseband signals.